Phil Cooper - London Camera Operator and Film Maker

Wonderful wonderful short by filmmaker Oscar Hudson, detailing the process which architect John Pawson went through re-designing London’s new Design Museum. The style of combining VHS and digital footage is brilliant, with each format contradicting and highlighting the other. Added to that I love how he gives John Pawson the camera, as a way of […]

Wow. Directing collective CANADA have delivered us an absolute beauty of a promo here, for Kevin Parker’s Tame Impala. Staying true to the music’s psychedelic style, the video imagines a high school boys’ love interest being charmed away from him by an all-encompassing gorilla. Neon paint, choreography, animation & basketball – it’s got it all.

Another nice little number here from Alan Del Rio Ortiz – the same director to do St. Vincent’s little doc for Nowness – this time with band Porches. Despite having no real narrative to follow, the film keeps you fixed with it’s abstract imagery, neon-coloured lighting and patches of 8mm film. Lovely.

I love simple little docs like this. Shooter Max Duncan, based in Beijing, has produced this honest portrait of artist Ai WeiWei introducing us to his city Beijing, and neighbourhood Caochangdi. An interview with the artist provides voice over which narrates us through the film, as we see the places and influences he speaks of. Check […]

After a brief hiatus I’m back and thankfully along comes this lovely little doc on pop star St. Vincent right on time. Produced by Alan Del Rio Ortiz, it introduces star Annie Clark (St.Vincent) in a candid way, documenting her spending time in her native rural Texas, singing at a local baseball game and walking […]

I saw this exhibition in Foam Museum in Amsterdam in 2014 and was completely blown away by it – I’ve somehow only just come across this bit of promotion by art & culture magazine Frieze. The artist Richard Mosse discovered this rare type of 16mm infrared film that Kodak developed for military purposes which – […]